(v. t.) To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a stone; to bruise an apple by letting it fall.
(v. t.) To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush.
(v. i.) To fight with the fists; to box.
(n.) An injury to the flesh of animals, or to plants, fruit, etc., with a blunt or heavy instrument, or by collision with some other body; a contusion; as, a bruise on the head; bruises on fruit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Most injuries due to accidents have been bruises, wounds and bone fractures of upper and lower limbs.
(2) Grosics did his best between the posts, but the team succumbed to Wales in a bruising play-off, thus failing to advance beyond the first stage.
(3) Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) type IV is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous disorder characterized by thin skin, prominent venous vascular markings, markedly increased bruising, and an increased likelihood of large bowel and large artery rupture.
(4) Television images of his body showed heavy bruising to his face.
(5) A comparison was made of the effect of providing or denying water to steers during the last 20 h before slaughter on carcase weight, bruising, muscle pH, and during the dressing process on the numbers of rumens from which ingesta was split and the number of heads and tongues condemned because of contamination with ingesta.
(6) The acquired platelet function defects, especially those resulting from drugs, are very common and should promptly be suspected in patients developing easy and spontaneous bruising, mild to moderate mucosal membrane hemorrhage, or unexplained bleeding associated with trauma or surgery.
(7) When she returned she had a large bruise on her forehead.
(8) Lowest content of ascorbic acid occurred in bruised beans cooked in copper-fortified water.
(9) The decision by Moody's deals a bruising blow to the embattled chancellor, George Osborne, who has repeatedly nailed his credibility to the AAA rating.
(10) Iran’s supreme leader has accused Saudi Arabia of committing genocide in Yemen and said air strikes against Houthi rebels are doomed to fail, in a sharp escalation of tensions between the two rivals over the outcome of yet another bruising conflict in the Middle East.
(11) When we were treating him, he was not screaming or crying, just in shock.” There was so much there in his face, the blood and the dust mixed, at that age Mustafa al-Sarout Hours after he and his family were rescued, Omran was discharged from hospital, having suffered a head injury and bruises in the attack, but nothing too serious.
(12) Sir David Nicholson's bruising tenure as chief executive of the NHS saw him take a further battering from MPs as the public accounts committee criticised him over big pay rises for consultants and a range of other issues, including his penchant for first class rail travel.
(13) Bruising was the most frequent injury and was most prevalent among boys under 3 years of age.
(14) 4) In case of the death caused by the bruise sustained on the occipital region, casualties on gyrus frontale were recognized by 97%, while the bruise located on other than the occipital region, injuries were recognized by 51% on the opposite region, and the remaining 49% of it showed injuries on the same region of the sustained.
(15) He required hospital treatment for a potentially life-changing eye injury, a fractured cheekbone and substantial bruising to his body.
(16) Jen Dunstan, of Sheffield Disabled People Against the Cuts, told the Star: “Dozens of elderly and disabled people have been left with bruising.
(17) After months of bruising negotiation and a threatened legal challenge from the EC, a compromise was negotiated in 2005 under which the Premier League promised to sell the rights to at least two broadcasters.
(18) Monti has faced a bruising time as prime minister: battling with unions at home to reform the labour laws, and tussling with Angela Merkel on the euro summit circus.
(19) It's a harsh tale of contemporary Russia, as beautiful as a bruise.
(20) The case of Bo Xilai , the former Communist party high-flyer brought down after the mysterious death of a British businessman, was a wild courtroom drama full of explosive confessions, unexpected revelations and bruising confrontations.
Fist
Definition:
(n.) The hand with the fingers doubled into the palm; the closed hand, especially as clinched tightly for the purpose of striking a blow.
(n.) The talons of a bird of prey.
(n.) the index mark [/], used to direct special attention to the passage which follows.
(v. t.) To strike with the fist.
(v. t.) To gripe with the fist.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is a struggle for the survival of our nation.” As ever, after Trump’s media dressing-down, his operation was quick to fit a velvet glove to an iron fist.
(2) It took years of prep work to make this sort of Übermensch thing socially acceptable, let alone hot – lots of “legalize it!” and “you are economic supermen!” appeals to the balled-and-entitled toddler-fists of the sociopathic libertechian madding crowd to really get mechanized mass-death neo-fascism taken mainstream .
(3) The "respect the game" police are back, (do they ever go away) and after Adrian Gonzalez, who dared to pump his fists following a fourth inning double that brought home LA's first run of the game.
(4) The defendants punched their air with their fists and shouted "peacefully" as their sentences were handed down, according to relatives.
(5) Ipso, he concluded, wants to come to this performance “armed with a slim clear book of rules and not with an iron fist”.
(6) I get to make jokes and pound my fist and get retweets and faves because I’m a comedian.
(7) On the day, however, the Queen's 80th birthday won hand over fist against both Cameron and the huskies and Mrs Blair and the hairdressing bill .
(8) Album of the year: Random Access Memories - Daft Punk Daft Punk snatches record of the year from Macklemore's tiny fists.
(9) Globiz hopes there's no repeat of last year's Star Magic Ball where Salvador prompted a major fist-fight to break out between two of the country's hottest young actors, Matteo Guidicelli and Coco Martin (think the R-Patz and Taylor Lautner of the Philippines).
(10) 62 min: Lyon win another corner, which McGregor fists away cleanly.
(11) The people of Iran, the region, Israel, America and the world deserve better than a deal that consolidates the grip on power of the violent revolutionary clerics who rule Tehran with an iron fist.” Here’s what members of the Bush team have said individually about the deal, since its announcement on Monday and in the weeks that led up to the announcement: Paul Wolfowitz , deputy secretary of defense under George W Bush, on Fox News : A bad deal is much worse than nothing.
(12) He had poor head control, hypertonia, and persistent fisting, and died at age 2 months.
(13) They didn't suffer fools gladly, and they ran everything with an iron fist."
(14) Private sector bondholders, many of them German banks who lent hand over fist to Greece in the runup to the crisis, were largely made good; workers have suffered wage cuts as the government struggles to make repayments to its bailout creditors.
(15) But Kiki Bertens, a smiling, 23-year-old Dutch qualifier who looked pleased just to be here, made a decent fist of her impossible assignment in dappled light on Arthur Ashe and pushed Serena Williams at least to the lower slopes of anxiety on day three of the 2015 US Open.
(16) During the first 2 min of hypoxia, glucose consumption was increased to twice the normal, and during the fist 2 min of hypercapnia, the corresponding value was less thane third of the normal.
(17) No, not Gordon Brown, although there were times when today's sleights of hand and burying of bad news had strong echoes of the clunking fist at its worst.
(18) Two groups of substernal goiters should be considered fist; the "simples" ones localised in the anterior and superior part of the mediastin.
(19) Malema became known as tough, playing dirty against those who opposed him for office, disbanding branches of the organisation that did not support him and at times taking to his opponents with his fists.
(20) A total of 33 of 34 patients with human bites and clenched-fist injuries and 33 of 39 patients with animal bites had aerobic or facultative bacteria isolated from their wounds.